Part 45 (1/2)
Come, darling! Tell me all. ”_Boo--boo-- I can't eat any more!_”
H. CHOLMONDELEY PENNELL, _Puck on Pegasus_.
Never take a sheet-bath--never. Next to meeting a lady acquaintance who, for reasons best known to herself, don't see you when she looks at you, and don't know you when she sees you, it is about the most uncomfortable thing in the world.
MARK TWAIN, _Choice Works_.
The critic's lot is pa.s.sing hard-- Between ourselves, I think reviewers, When call'd to truss a crowing bard, Should not be sparing of the skewers.
FREDERICK LOCKER, _London Lyrics_.
To-morrow the critics will commence. You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.
_Phoebus_, in LORD BEACONSFIELD's _Lothair_.
That climax of all human ills-- The inflammation of his weekly bills.
LORD BYRON, _Don Juan_.
On n'a guere de defauts qui ne soient plus pardonnables que les moyens dont on se sert pour les cacher.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, _Reflexions_.
Meeting a friend one day, when the weather had taken a most sudden and unaccountable turn from cold to warmth, the subject was mooted as usual, and characterized by the gentleman as being ”most extraordinary.” ”Yes,” replied [Compton], ”it is a most unheard of thing; we've jumped from winter into summer without a spring.”
_Memoir of Henry Compton._
”Pray what is this Permissive Bill, That some folks rave about?
I can't with all my pains and skill, Its meaning quite make out?”
O! it's a little simple Bill, That seeks to pa.s.s _incog._, To _permit_ ME--to _prevent_ YOU-- From having a gla.s.s of grog.
LORD NEAVES, _Songs and Verses_.
Quelque mal qu'un homme puisse penser des femmes, il n'y a pas de femme qui n'en pense encore plus mal que lui.
CHAMFORT, _Maximes_.
With thy fogs, all so thick and so yellow, The most approved tint for _ennui_, Oh, when shall a man see thy fellow, November, for _felo-de-se_?
J. R. PLANCHe, _Songs and Poems_.
”Life,” continued Mr. Rose, ”is a series of moments and emotions.”
”And a series of absurdities, too, very often,” said Dr. Jenkinson.